The mafic-ultramafic association in the Virginia Blue Ridge cover rocks: Rifting sequence or ophiolitic mélange?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 314, Issue , 1997, Pages 65-87

  Wang, Ping ^a   Glover III, Lynn ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESITE; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

BEARING SEQUENCES; DETRITAL GRAINS; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; MAFIC-ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; TECTONIC MODELS; TECTONIC SETTINGS; ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ALLUVIAL FAN; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; LAURENTIA; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMATISM; MELANGE; OPHIOLITE; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; TACONIC OROGENY; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 0344075187     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2314-0.65     Document Type: Article

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